Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 27, 2015

LOT 365

ROLEX REF. 16523, DAYTONA STEEL AND GOLD Rolex, "Oyster Perpetual, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Cosmograph, Daytona," case No. T933887, Ref. 16523. Made in 1996. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel and 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, and a stainless steel and 18K yellow gold Oysterlock Ref. 78393 bracelet. Accompanied by a box and warranty (now void).

HKD 60,000 - 80,000

USD 7,700 - 10,300 / CHF 7,300 - 9,700

Sold: HKD 75,000

Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back and gold buttons and crown, Triplock winding crown protected by the crown guard, tachometer graduation on the gold bezel to 400 units per hour, sapphire crystal. Two-tone black and champagne with applied yellow gold luminous baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer minute/seconds division. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. Cal. 4030, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 31 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions and temperature, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, Microstella regulating screws.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial and case signed. DIAM. 40 mm. THICKNESS 13 mm. Applox. overall length 175 mm.